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- Greece in 2015: the economy is in tatters and the country is on the verge of bankruptcy. A new government rebels against the EU's iron-fisted rule and inspires millions of Europeans. Based on the political memoirs of Yanis Varoufakis.
- Strangers in their own birthplace, 16-year-old Danny and 18-year-old Odysseus cross the entire country in search of their Greek father, after their Albanian mother passes away.
- A road trip with a truck driver and a poet leads them to a grotesque and risky poetry slam. But it's Christmas and miracles can happen.
- A 10-year-old boy for more than a year as he confronted a decision which potentially would have a huge impact not just for his own future but for that of his island.
- The Statue of Liberty and Joker, two wandering street performers, end up in the same police cell. When the systemic brutality of the state and the police "breaks" Liberty, Joker will search for the pieces to rebuild her from scratch.
- The citizens of Athens are tormented by insomnia. Rumor has it that after dark an elusive creature is roaming the city streets. Citizens will cross its path during one night and for the first time in a while, they will go to sleep.
- As a mountainous village in Greece sinks under the lake, the memories of its inhabitants emerge from the water.
- From the First World War military cemeteries in Bitola (North Macedonia), we move to the banks of the Danube in Novi Sad (Serbia), and then to the mines of Kozani (Greece), seeking, through a Balkan travelogue, the dark vein that runs through these places and determines their fate. The film explores the parallel past and present of the three locations, evoking their traumas and juxtaposing them with the violent exploitation of the environment in the Balkans day. The true narrator is the landscape and its sounds poetically revealing the dark and violent anthropogenic inscriptions upon itself.
- An intimate confession of the Greek feminist avant-garde director Antoinetta Angelidi to her daughter Rea Walldén, and the world. A film on her gaze and life, her visions and films, and the devastating experience of going blind. A film made during lockdown inside a flat, about our interior space, at the most secret place of which one finds the Other.
- It is common within Romani communities for children at the age of 13 to drop out of school to get married. But this is not the case of the children of the first-ever Roma Robotics team, who struggle to overcome the segregation of their community, travel all the way to USA, finish school and change their life paths.
- 2021: Quarantine and distance learning. The camera follows students and teachers, recording how this unprecedented experience formed their relationships, on- and off-screen. Confidence in an "open" school allows the camera lens to reveal emotions, difficulties, and impasses. The viewer will decide who finally wins: physical presence or e-learning?
- A historical-poetic documentary that recreates the unknown history of Hellenism in Sozopol (Eastern Rumelia), based on a letter written by the director's grandfather in 1929.
- A living traditional craft, wooden boatbuilding has been practiced on Syros for millenia. The portraits of five boatbuilders who live on the island narrate an island and society in transition.
- Jazz in Greece is ever-growing due to the courage and insistence of some passionate musicians, alongside the enthusiasm of younger artists who nowadays have the option to study jazz in their own country. Yet, the scene has a long way to become more popular and productive: this is the scope of the film, inpsired by jazzlibrary.gr, the first all-about-Greek jazz website.
- Kaizo unfolds the story of two children as they wander through an empty town, in a bizarre game of exploration. They venture forth in an attempt to discover something, seeking to understand what exactly happened, or perhaps just to escape from it all. Kaizo is an endless tale of love in a desolate world, a narrative game with no true conclusion, and a journey through an ageless era. It resembles a video game or a post-apocalyptic tale, which unfolds in variations, chapters, or levels. It commences and concludes endlessly. The beginning is the end, and each ending marks a new beginning.
- Scientific developments and space exploration are juxtaposed with the little girl's pledge for peace in the aftermath of World War II. The macro- and micro-histories intertwine in a minimalist environment, while the voyage of cosmic memory throughout history evokes the freedom of light travel, inviting the audience to participate in an experiment that will change humanity forever.
- The city of Hermoupolis, capital of Syros is located at the center of the Cyclades, in the Aegean Sea, in Greece. In its history one finds all the elements that shaped contemporary Greece. This is an animated documentary telling its story.
- The poet M. Sachtouris in different phases of his life. The questions he asks are not philosophical declarations or logical findings, but images. Images that seem to come from a dream and end up in his poetic iconography.
- A 90-year-old painter, a neuroscientist, and a marine ecology biologist meet in Amvrakikos bay, an ecosystem of great natural wealth and history. Among eels, wet landscapes, and watercolors, the past is recalled on the scale of microhistory, along with the survival conditions of a generation that emerged from the war persistent and resilient.
- A group of young antiheroes with disabilities, try to know about acting in theater stage. Through their obvious love for it decide to put on a theatrical performance based on improvised scenes centered on superheroes. The young antiheroes are trained theatrically. At the same time, we are getting to know the young antiheroes better with daily scenes of their lives.
- Marina, a young disabled woman, takes part in a video conference, during which she talks to John, a 'different' racially student. The 'demon' of the internet, however, prevents them from seeing their visual 'social' peculiarities. In the appointment they later arrange, they are recognized, surprised and flee, terrified by the 'social' and racial, unknown that they meet and refuse to accept, despite the public image that they both want to present.
- Voutes is a film depicting Perama, a working-class district of Athens, by following Panayiotis and Fotis. The film observes their pigeon-keeping practice, documents their narratives, presents their relationship with the other pigeon-fanciers, and follows them around the suburb.
- A walk around down-town Athens evokes the director's memories from an era of early youth. A walk as if it is a love letter to lovers and selves of the past. Questions about how female identity is hammered rise in a circular motion, like in the eternal circle of sun and rain, life and death.
- Is it possible that Atlantis really existed? New evidence of an ancient lost civilization raises surprising new theories.
- Gregg heads to Athens, where he visits the Acropolis to meet the ancient gods, discovers the birthplace of the modern Olympics and samples the amazing Greek cuisine.
- Susan takes an early morning flight from Edinburgh to Dubrovnik, before boarding a cruise ship. She disembarks in Crete for a tour of the old town and harbour. In Athens she visits the Acropolis and enjoys a day at the beach in Corfu.
- Simon begins his journey through Greece, from the country's islands through to its capital. Along the way he meets gun-firing priests and desperate migrants, and witnesses extreme poverty after the country's financial collapse.
- While driving to the Detour, one team ends up going the wrong way, and a surprising U-turn causes friction between racers.